Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)
Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@planet.nl>:
> > So, in other words, Debian sans CUPS isn't possible. You may
> > not have to actually run it, but you have to have it installed.
> > That's ridiculous. This is viral software.
>
> True. Unfortunately this virus has already spread widely.. At
> least 144 packages which do not really need cups (because anything
Ugh. The list of stuff it wants to get rid of is just weird.
Audacity, Azureus, Bittornado-gui, Mplayer, Xcdroast, Xscreensaver?!?
They're not even remotely related to printing. Here's another:
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(0) heretic /home/keeling_ apt-cache rdepends xscreensaver
xscreensaver
Reverse Depends:
xscreensaver-gl
xscreensaver-gl
xautolock
|rss-glx
kscreensaver-xsavers
junior-toys
|hibernate
gnome
gnome
gkrellshoot
afterstep
gnome-control-center
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There is no Gnome or KDE on this thing, yet xscreensaver works just as
it always has.
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